RSNA News - October 2004

Announcements

RSNA 2004 Dedications

RSNA President Brian C. Lentle, M.D., has announced the following dedications for the 90th RSNA Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting:

The RSNA Meeting Program will be dedicated to the memory of Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, D.Sc., the father of computed tomography, who died in August at the age of 84.

The Annual Oration in Radiation Oncology will be dedicated to Hywel Madoc-Jones, M.D., Ph.D., a former radiation oncologist-in-chief at Tufts-New England Medical Center, who died in January from pancreatic cancer at the age of 65.

RSNA 2004 Logo Wins Design Award

The logo for the 90th RSNA Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting is the winner of a 2004 American Graphic Design Award.

Of all the entries submitted, a national panel of judges chose only 12 percent to receive special recognition.

The American Graphic Design competition is sponsored by Graphic Design USA, a monthly business-to-business magazine for professional graphic designers and related creative and production professionals.

Image Demonstrates Future of Medicine

The Society of Nuclear Medicine's (SNM) Image of the Year reflects the theme of the 2004 SNM annual meeting—creating lifetime images of health and disease.

The image is actually a series of images from a study performed by Hamamatsu Medical Imaging Center in Japan, the University of Washington in Seattle and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The study is titled, "Brain FDG PET Imaging in a Population-Based Cohort of Asymptomatic Subjects: Initial Findings."

SNM Past-President Henry N. Wagner Jr., M.D., tied the image to his vision of healthcare for the future during the Highlights Lecture at the SNM annual meeting. "I envision an International Health Manifestation Database (IHMD) where everyone will have a periodically updated portable electronic record that contains lifetime manifestations of his or her state of health," he said. "Rather than trying to give a name to a patient's disease, putting him or her in a disease 'box,' the person's electronic health record will reveal all the 'manifestations' of the patient's health and illness. The manifestations on a patient's 'health chip' can be automatically compared to the IHMD to characterize illness, predict what is likely to happen and suggest possible treatment."

The images in the Image of the Year are composites of brain scans of 31 Alzheimer's disease patients and 551 normal patients. Because they are composites, the images reveal common functional characteristics of the brain-wasting disease. They form an Alzheimer's disease database that can be compared with an individual patient's brain scan to see if that person's brain is exhibiting similar characteristics.

NIBIB Convenes Panel on Intramural Research

The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) has established a Blue Ribbon Panel on Intramural Research. The panel will meet this fall to provide recommendations to the National Advisory Council on Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and NIBIB Director Roderic I. Pettigrew, Ph.D., M.D., on the planning and development of an intramural research program within NIBIB.

Specifically, the panel will provide recommendations on scientific directions, unique research opportunities and possibilities for collaboration. Co-chairs of the panel are John Linehan, Ph.D., P.E., vice-president for bioengineering for The Whitaker Foundation, and James Thrall, M.D., radiologist-in-chief in the Department of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.

NIH Launches Annual Student Loan Repayment Program

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is accepting applications until December 15 for its 2004 student loan repayment program.

The program provides up to $35,000 for repayment of qualified educational debt from health professionals pursuing careers in clinical, pediatric, contraception and infertility, or health disparities research. The program also provides coverage for Federal and state tax liabilities.

Details and the online application are available at www.lrp.nih.gov.

2004 Introduction to Research for International Young Academics

The RSNA Board of Directors has approved 17 participants for this year's Introduction to Research for International Young Academics program, administered by RSNA's Committee on International Relations and Education (CIRE). The participants are:

International Young Academic	Country
Diego A. Aguirre Matallana, M.D.	Columbia
Cyrillo Araujo Jr., M.D.	Brazil
Carmen Caballero, M.D.	Mexico
Sorana Daniela Bolboaca, M.D.	Romania
Maia Gagua, M.D.	Republic of Georgia
Fabricio G. Goncalves, M.D.	Brazil
Gurpreet Singh Gulati, M.D.	India
Aki Kido, M.D.	Japan
Chan Kyo Kim, M.D.	South Korea
Eric T. Kimura Hayama, M.D.	Mexico
C. George Koshy, M.D.	India
Ana Carolina Motta, M.D.	Brazil
Petri Sipola, M.D.	Finland
Kushaljit Singh Sodhi, M.D.	India
Aija Teibe, M.D.	Latvia
Marina Ulla, M.D.	Argentina
Winfried A. Willinek, M.D.	Germany

The focus of the Introduction to Research for International Young Academics program is to encourage young radiologists from countries outside of the United States and Canada to pursue careers in academic radiology.

The program consists of a special seminar that is held during the RSNA Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting. The participant receives complimentary annual meeting registration and a $1,000 grant is provided to the individual's department to help advance their academic career.

Deadline for nominations each year is April 15. For more information, go to www.rsna.org/international/CIRE/iyaseminar.html or contact Fiona Miller at (630) 590-7741 or at .